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Human evolution

Taxonomy
(Hominins)

Last common ancestors

Australopithecines

Nakalipithecus Orrorin Sahelanthropus Kenyanthropus
Ardipithecus	A. kadabba A. ramidus
Australopithecus	A. afarensis A. africanus A. anamensis A. bahrelghazali A. deyiremeda A. garhi A. sediba
Paranthropus	P. aethiopicus P. boisei P. robustus

Humans and
proto-humans
(Homo)

Proto-humans

H. gautengensis (?) H. habilis H. naledi H. rudolfensis (?) H. tsaichangensis (?)
Homo erectus	H. e. erectus H. e. georgicus H. e. lantianensis H. e. nankinensis H. e. pekinensis H. e. soloensis H. e. tautavelensis H. e. yuanmouensis

Archaic humans

Modern humans

Homo sapiens	H. s. sapiens (archaic homo sapiens, anatomically modern humans) Jebel Irhoud H. s. idaltu Cro-Magnon Manot people Tam Pa Ling Red Deer Cave people

Ancestors

Homo habilis → Homo ergaster / Homo erectus (→ Homo antecessor) → Homo heidelbergensis → archaic Homo sapiens → Homo sapiens

Models

General models	Hunting Gathering Endurance running Aquatic ape Sexual selection Self-domestication
Specific models	Diet Cooking Expensive tissue Shore-based Drugs Drunken monkey Evolutionary models of human drug use Stoned ape theory Behavior Killer ape Cooperative eye Life history Grandmother Patriarch
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Origin of modern humans	Recent African origin Multiregional origin Archaic admixture Behavioral modernity Early migrations Recent evolution

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Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis) is a cranium fossil that was found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner.

In addition to the cranium, an upper jaw from another individual, a sacrum, a tibia, and two femur fragments were also found. The skull was dubbed Rhodesian Man at the time of the find, but is now commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.

The association between the bones is unclear, but the tibia and femur fossils are usually associated with the skull.

Rhodesian man is dated between 125,000 and 300,000 years old. Some reports have given erroneous dates of up to 1.75-2.5 million years age for the skull. Cranial capacity of the Broken Hill skull has been measured at 1300 cm³, which, when coupled with the more recent dating, makes any direct link to older skulls unlikely and negates the 1.75 to 2.5 Million year earlier dating.

The skull is described as having a broad face similar to Homo neanderthalensis, but with a cranium intermediate between advances Homo sapiens and neanderthal. Most current experts believe Rhodesian Man to be within the group of Homo heidelbergensis though other designations such as archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis have also been proposed.

External source

Woodward, Arthur Smith 1921. "A New Cave Man from Rhodesia, South Africa." Nature 108: 371-2.

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